Profound Desires of the Gods
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
Der Orient - Wiege des Christentums
Eden
An experimental, mixed-media retelling of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Of course, when a story this old is told countless times throughout the centuries, a few important details are bound to get lost in translation...
L'abatis
The Story of Three Sisters or How the World Came to Have Four Seasons Instead of One
Suffocating in her older sister's flawless system, Mae, a young goddess, questions her tedious work of maintaining an eternal spring.
Spirit of the Reindeer
The third and final part of a trilogy based on Arctic creation myths. The film is a multifaceted tissue weave of myths and traditions reflected in the symbiosis between reindeer, human and landscape.
Two Artists Talk to One Another
Two uncanny artists meet on a park bench to debate creation and destruction, as they have for eons past.
Watunna
The creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings construct meaning from their experience. Narrated by Stan Brakhage. Music and sound by Bruce Odland.
LA. LA. End
The Californian sun, which lights up the city, lights up again every evening in cinemas all over the world". Guided by these words from Blaise Cendrars, L.A. L.A. END is a stroll through Los Angeles, among the remnants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Following in the footsteps of a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, we meet a gallery of characters who paint a sensitive portrait of a bygone era that gradually becomes a portrait of a woman.
Adam and Eve
Dramatization of Genesis: titles with Biblical language combined with stock shots.